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And even if the sheath of my dagger has been found, it will be no proof, for I can say it is not mine. Any lie I choose to tell will have Gherardi's word to warrant it! so I am safe unless Angela speaks!" He considered this possibility for a moment, then smiled. "But she never will!
And what of the work he had undertaken? The people to whom he had pledged his life? The great Christ-message he had determined to re-preach for the comfort of the million lost and sorrowful? His brows contracted, and a sudden shadow of pain clouded the frank clearness of his eyes. Gherardi's words came back to his memory, "You have embarked in a most hopeless cause!
The original scenes were produced by the Italian comedians at the Hotel de Bourgogne, 5 March, 1684. Their popularity did not wane for many a decade. In the fifth edition of Gherardi's Theatre Italien there are far fuller excerpts from the farce than in the first edition . p. 392 who now cannot supply one. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. If Mrs.
Gherardi's thick dark eyebrows went up with a movement of surprise at such an irrational remark. "That would make a difference certainly," he answered smiling, "The claims of diplomacy have to be considered!"
And the excitement over the great picture became more and more intense especially when it was known that it would soon be taken away from Rome never to be seen there again. Angela herself knew little of her rapidly extending fame, she was in Paris with the Princesse D'Agramont who had taken her there immediately after Monsignor Gherardi's visit to her father.
But he had his own ideas on the subject of Gherardi's visit to his fair betrothed, ideas which he kept to himself, for if his surmises were correct, now was the time to put Sylvie's character to the test.
"Brother, here is a matter which I cannot possibly understand," he said, "Monsignor Gherardi writes here to congratulate me upon a miracle I have worked in Rouen! and summons me at once to the presence of His Holiness! What can it mean? I have performed no miracle! Surely some jest is being played with me, and one most unbecoming to a man of Gherardi's position and influence!"
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities! The days of evil are drawing to an end; Rome must fall!" Gherardi's breath came and went quickly, but he kept up the outward appearance of cold composure. "You rant very well, Mr. Leigh!" he said, "You would make an excellent Hyde Park orator!
A dull anger began to irritate Gherardi's usually well-tempered nerves, and he was searching in his mind for some scathing sentence wherewith to overwhelm and reprove the confident ease of the boy, when the door leading to the Pope's apartments was slowly pushed open to admit the entrance of Monsignor Moretti.
She rose from her seat and saluted him in silence, instinctively grasping the book she held a little closer. But Gherardi's quick glance had already perceived the title and the name of its author. "You improve the time!" he said, sarcastically, pacing slowly beside her. "To one of your faith and devotion that book should be accursed!" She raised her clear eyes and looked at him straightly,
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